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LOCAL EMERGENCY PLANNING COMMITTEE Minutes April 16, 2009

Don Button called the meeting to order at 12:00 Noon with 10 members present.  Members present were Frank Goldsby, Richard Banes, Marshall Lewis, Jeff Baier, Danny Law, John Crosby, Terry Crosby, Alfred Baker, Vivian Button and Don Button

John Crosby made a motion to approve the Minutes of last meeting. Al Baker seconded.  Motion carried

Tina Spease of ADT Security Services presented a webinar on their notification system.  Everyone was very impressed with the capability, reporting and cost. It was discussed that this could be used as a backup paging system when we go to radios only.

We have received several letters on our resource typing information we sent out.

Exercise Committee needs to meet. (John Crosby, Danny Law, Janet Thomeczek, Jerry Deckert and Al Baker)  The HSEEP paper work that has to be filled was also talked about.

The regional meeting about the capabilities assessments will be May 6^th in Ulysses. If any of the LEPC would like to attend please let Don know so he can get you register.

Care home to Legacy move went very well. It was the first event that used an Incident Action Plan (IAP) and the state wants a copy of the IAP to use in training. Don is meeting with then on Tuesday to talk about the After Action Report (AAR).  Don stated he was impressed with how many volunteers came to help with the move.

Upcoming trainings: IS 191 Incident Command System/Emergency Operation Center Interface Course will be  May 12  in Garden City  and Emergency Operations Center Management and Operations will be June 16 & 17 in Garden City. You can sign up for these classes on KS-Train.

Don met with FEMA and KDEM representatives to discuss the Snow Storm of March 27 to see if we would qualify to be included in the Federal Disaster.  We did not have much damage but we used a lot of manpower and equipment for snow removal.

Next meeting date is May 20.

Al Baker made a motion to adjourn.  Jeff Baier seconded.  Motion carried.

The meeting was adjourned at 1:28 PM.

Respectfully submitted by Vivian Button